Recent posts by cpasley on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / Argue (about everything)

Ah, I bet I know why. Roger’s changed how logins work to recognize your kong login on the server side, and since he’s working on a new version incorporating those changes, didn’t update the old alpha one. The new version will be out soon, with a redesign lobby system and some new bells and whistles.

Topic: Kongregate / Argue (about everything)

It’s still going. We’re actually hoping to go full Beta on this one soon.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08!

What’s interesting is that he actually did. Maybe put down the talking points and read the speech, mmkay?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08!

I dare you to make less sense.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08!

Beyond just not having experience, he, in all the address’ I have heard him make, has never said what he wants, or plans to do IF he does indeed get elected.

Did you listen to the speech last night? I don’t think he could have answered that question better than he did. I’ve never heard McCain talk so specifically about what he wants to do. All McCain can do is try to scare you into not voting for Obama.

Topic: Serious Discussion / McCain 08

She seems like a horrible pick to me. I haven’t heard her speak, so I don’t know a whole lot about her, but it’s clear that she was a novelty pick by McCain who’s trying to drum up even the slightest bit of enthusiasm behind his campaign in the face of Obama’s dynamism.

Not only does she have more Executive experience than any of the other people on the Ballot, but she is the governor of the ONLY state in American History [Since our Independence from you unpro] that has been invaded and that the enemy has held their ground.

Was she there? No? Then that’s completely irrelevant.

They have no dirt on her that they can find, besides she is trying to get her sister’s husband off of the State Troopers. Big Deal.

Right. Leaders who abuse their power for personal reasons is exactly who we need running the country. Like we didn’t get enough of that in the past eight years.

She completely deflates McCain’s experience argument, and as the oldest nominated head of a major party in history, there’s a real possibility he may die before he finishes his term (Not that I hope he does, but face it, he’s old and being President is a stressful job). After all the hooplah he’s raised that Obama’s not ready to be president, McCain wants us to believe that he genuinely thinks Palin is?

Not to mention that she has publically stated that she has no idea what the vice president actually does.

I could be completely wrong, but this seems like a flop of a try to get headlines, not a pairing that will help him govern should he win.

Topic: Kongregate / New card art!

Great. Now I’ll never be able to look at that card without thinking that’s what he’s saying.

Topic: Kongregate / New card art!

Topic: Serious Discussion / McCain 08

McCain has followed his neocon predecessors into the era of government by soundbite.

Fact: Iraq did not attack us. We invaded under false pretenses.

Fact: More people have died as a result of the war to “liberate” Iraq than Saddam ever killed.

Fact: There is no “winning” the war in Iraq. It’s a war of ideology. The Iraqis have to chart their own path and we’re in the way.

Fact: The so-called fiscal conservatives have sold the country to China for these wars. The deficit is the largest in history.

Ok. With me so far?

McCain wants credit for the success of the surge, and while the violence has lessened as a result, the goal indented for the surge – buying more time for the Iraqis to settle their government – has not. Their government is still in shambles. A better decision would be to not have sent the troops in the first place, which is what Obama would have done.

McCain divorced his first wife because she had been injured in a car crash and wasn’t as pretty as she used to be.

McCain was one of the Keating Five. Look it up.

McCain will support anything for political gain, and has said so himself.

McCain doesn’t believe in diplomacy. His only tool in foreign policy negotiations is war.

Obama’s not perfect. But he’s a hell of a lot better than a career politician who is so in love with the idea of being president that he’ll throw away all the beliefs he firmly declared only eight years ago simply to get his name in the history books.

Topic: Kongregate / Amazons

I heard vampires aren’t real and that ninjas can’t really make energy bolts.

One of these statements is a lie.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate needs Nitrome Games

Nitrome actually came to visit us last week. We’re hopeful that they’ll put their games up on Kongregate. ;)

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08!

Not if the war in Iraq is any indication. It’s still pretty unpopular.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08!

I think Obama can hit hard when he wants to. You don’t get successful in Chicago politics unless you can. I think after the convention he’ll start turning the heat up. All it would take is one truthful attack ad:

“John McCain touts his foreign policy experience. But as the record shows, John McCain only has one solution for foreign policy crises: WAR.”

Topic: Kongregate / State of Kongai Address

Do you still think that the way the game works right now is the correct solution to this problem?

Personally, I don’t like that it’s a numerical rank. I wanted it to be iconic, or given named ranks.

Topic: Kongregate / State of Kongai Address

Wait a second—aren’t the Pirate Cards confirmed to be coming out during the month of September 2008?

No.

Topic: Kongregate / State of Kongai Address

Currently there are two ranking systems, “ranked games” and “quick match”. Why?

We wanted people who devoted a lot of time into playing Kongai but didn’t want to be in the competitive Ranked Matches to feel like they were achieving something. That’s why the player levels only count how many matches you’ve won and does not penalize you for how many you’ve lost.

It was modeled after the system used in Halo 3, where you have a skill number and a seperate “rank” which rewards you for games won.

If there are numerous people padding their stats by only playing new players, then where does a new player learn to play?

Kongbot is there for people to practice getting familiar with the cards and how they work, not necessarily for practicing strategy. We thought we were pretty thorough with the combination of instructions and quick tips as a way to learn the game mechanics. But we can’t play the game for the players. We thought about doing a more in-depth strategy suggestion tutorial, but the way Kongai is made, there is no “correct” strategy, as your opponent could have figured out what you’re going to do and counter it. Those are skills you only learn by playing.

The vague instructions attached to the game?

What’s vague about them? I thought they were pretty clear and specific without miring a new player in a huge explosion of complicated text.

They end up getting destroyed vs the stat padder and never login to Kongai again out of frustration.

Unfortunately, people aren’t using Ranked match the way it was intended. It’s there to match people based on similar level, but there’s not currently enough people playing it to be effective.

but maybe some sort of tutorial could be added to Kong Bot, basically taking a new player by the hand and walking them through a game and what their options are for each turn. Kind of like the talking “Paper Clip” in MS Office.

That’s exactly what the Quick Tips are.

Topic: Kongregate / The Best Kongregate Avatar!

Mine! Cause no one gets the reference!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Should women fight in war? (on the frontlines)

I don’t think physical limitations mean much when you’ve got an M16 in hand.

Topic: Kongregate / Dinowaurs Beta Testers Wanted

Hooray! Another thousand people have been let in! If you think you’re one of the thousand (chosen first come first served from this thread) click here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/intuition/dinow…

If not, just wait a bit. Everyone will get in eventually.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Hunter gatherer thread- continued

insane/

yes

crazy/

yes

demented/

yes

mad

No. Wait, I mean yes.

many revolutionaries were considered insane by the times definition.

And many crazies were just crazy.

Topic: Kongregate / Dinowaurs Beta Testers Wanted

That’s because we’re still not letting everyone in yet. But soon!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Hunter gatherer thread- continued

I like specialization. I don’t want to spend all day hunting. I’d rather make Flash games.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Political IQ [AX]

Give a small tax incentive for voting (nobody would pay to vote, but a ton of people would vote to save money)

Maybe then require a test of where you had to accurately assign each candidate’s position on key issues in order to vote. (And get maybe 80% right.)

I dunno, just off the top of my head.

And sorry to see you go ee80. I disagree with much about your political platform, but I’ve enjoyed our arguments.

Topic: Kongregate / New card art!

We may, in light of your feedback and other considerations, retouch the pirates and the robots with Udon.

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That is all. Go about your business. Nothing to see here.

Topic: Kongregate / I have a dream- A Kongai dream!

There isn’t any official history to the Kongai characters, but we may introduce one at some point, just to keep you guessing. ;) That said, I’ve been hoping some people would try to define a history on their own. Whether we’ll take it as canon or not remains to be seen. ;)